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forpines

forpines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forpine.

Meaning of forpine

Verb

forpine (third-person singular simple present forpines, present participle forpining, simple past and past participle forpined)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.
    • But, through long anguish and selfe-murd'ring
      He was so wasted and forpined quight1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (archaic, transitive) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
    • […] While to my sight thy giant stature rears
      Its bulk forpined upon these savage rocks
      In shameful bonds the linked adamant locks.1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound

Questions about forpines

What is forpines the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Forpines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forpine.

Words near forpines in the dictionary

  1. forpassing
  2. forpet
  3. forpets
  4. forpine
  5. forpined
  6. forpines
  7. forpining
  8. forpit
  9. forpits
  10. forprofit
  11. forprofits

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